Acasta navicula

Acasta navicula

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Balanoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Thecostraca Subclassis: Cirripedia Infraclassis: Thoracica Superordine: Thoracicalcarea Subordo: Balanomorpha Superfamilia: Balanoidea

Familia: Archaeobalanidae
Subfamilia: Acastinae
Genus: Acasta
Species: Acasta navicula

Name

• Acasta navicula (Darwin, 1854): 221
  • Original genus: Balanus
  • Symbiont: obligate commensal on Gorgonia
  • Type locality: Tubicoreen, Madras
  • Types: BMNH
  • Distribution: Indo-west Pacific: Gulf of Aden, Iran and Thailand; Indonesia; southern Japan
  • ZooBank: D7CAC93C-04E2-4632-BA59-C5153B5B90B2

References

• Darwin, C. 1854. A monograph on the sub-class Cirripedia with figures of all species. Vol. 2: The Balanidae, The Verrucidae. BHL London: Ray Society. Reference page.  [See p. 221, as Balanus navicula]

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• Carriol, R-P. & Schneider, S. 2016. New species of cirripedes (Calanticidae, Scalpellidae and Archaeobalanidae) from the mid Burdigalian (Miocene) of the North Alpine Foreland Basin. Annales de Paléontologie, 102(1): 41–50. DOI: 10.1016/j.annpal.2016.01.002 Full article (PDF).Reference page.  [See Table 2, distribution]
• Hoek, P.P.C. 1913: The Cirripedia of the Siboga Expedition. B. Siboga Expeditie Monogr. XXXIb, i-xxv: 129–275. BHLReference page.  [See p. 223, as Balanus (Patello-Balanus) navicula]
• Kolbasov, G.A., Chan, B.K-K., Molodtsova, T. & Achituv, Y. 2016. Revision of the coral-inhabiting genus Conopea (Cirripedia: Archaeobalanidae) with description of two new species of the genera Conopea and Acasta. Zootaxa 4178(2): 182–208. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.2. Reference page.  [ee p. 196, generic re-assignment]
• Newman, W.A. & Ross, E. 1976. Revision of the balanomorph barnacles; including a catalog of the species. Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History, (9) BHL Reference page.  [See p. 55, as Conopea navicula]
• Pitriana, P., Jones, D.S., Corbari, L., von Rintelen, K. 2020. New insights gained from museum collections: Deep-sea barnacles (Crustacea, Cirripedia, Thoracica) in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, collected during the Karubar expedition in 1991. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96(2): 649-698. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.55733 Reference page.  [See p. 684-685, fig. 34]

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